Word: birla
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Ghanshyamdas Birla, decided to visit Britain and the U.S. to see how industry is run there...
...Mehta's statement was not entirely free of self-interest. Wrote New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews from Calcutta recently: "Big Indian firms like the Birla Brothers of Bombay finance the All-India Congress. . . . Indian rivals [of British businessmen] want to get their businesses away from them, and in that struggle much is involved, political as well as financial...
...political enemy, Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee of the Hindu (Orthodox) Mahasabha. A Government refusal to allow Dr. Mookerjee to interview Gandhi helped to balk a possible agreement. The Moslem premiers of Sind and Punjab and Bengal urged conciliation. A millionaire industrialist and longtime intimate friend of Gandhi, Ghan-shyamdas Birla, said that he believed Gandhi would agree to allow Jinnah to form his own government...
...Hour. In the dawn's early light, Bombay's police commissioner arrested Gandhi at the home of Ghanshyam Dass Birla, a wealthy Indian industrialist. The elderly Pied Piper, who had been up until 2 a.m. writing reports and memoranda, was sleepy but good-humored. He was given an hour to get ready. During that time he had a breakfast of orange juice and goat's milk. He heard a Sanskrit hymn and a few words from the Koran, read by a young Moslem girl. He scrawled a last-minute message to his followers. Then, with a copy...
...daughter who has been Gandhi's devoted follower for 17 years. Mme. Gandhi, older (73), tinier (barely four feet tall) and far frailer than her scrawny spouse who is still tough as nails despite the fiction that he is sickly, was allowed to remain in the Birla home. But that evening, she, too, was arrested when she tried to make a speech before 30,000 persons in a big Bombay park. The meeting was broken up, but not before other speakers read the last message from Gandhi: "Every man is free to go to the fullest length under ahimsa...